Fighting the wrong war
Well, I was going to write a post something like this one. But Shrinkwrapped has done it so much better than I, so I recommend you just go there and read.
The New Neo
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Well, I was going to write a post something like this one. But Shrinkwrapped has done it so much better than I, so I recommend you just go there and read.
The number one problem with this analysis is that the WMD intelligence failure is not totally in the past: it’s a reasonable benchmark about the credibility and competence of this administration, and the architects of this war.
In short, they screwed up the intelligence, and they screwed up the post-war: who’s going to trust them now? Of course, the same applies to all the “cakewalk” drummers from before the war as well.
Fighting the wrong war? Again? First it was Afghanistan, which was a no brainer. Then it was Iraq, well, many people had reservations about that. Now we are being told, it’s neither of those two, it’s Iraq: so let’s go to war against them.
I am resigned to how things will shake out, but, we have spent a huge amount of money and taken a significant (for our puny forces) number of casualties, and before you go on any more excellent adventures, it might be a good idea to wrap things up in Iraq and Syria, first.
LOL! Afghanistan=Syria.
We will eventually have to make war on the entire Middle East. Those artificial, colonially-imposed national borders are incredibly useful when the supporters of Arab dictators want to declare “hey, you souldn’t have fought that artificial nation, this other one was more dangerous all along!” aren’t they?
Of course, if we had gone to war with anyone BUT Iraq after Afghanistan, the left’s song and dance would have been, “But Saddam has WMDs, and threw out the UN inspectors and threatened to kill them if they ever returned! It was a stupid mistake to invade Iran / Pakistan / North Korea / Sudan / anywhere else!”
I wonder if anyone makes t-shirts or bumper stickers that read “I’d rather make war on terror, than war on the weather.”